External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

Iraq war veteran warns Ferguson riots are ‘taste of things to come’

The Ferguson crisis has sparked a national debate on the culture of policing toward black communities

Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas

Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7bn a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK's BG and the US's Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work - but first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, & Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom

Netanyahu’s goal is to end Palestinian sovereignty

Israel’s attack on Gaza is the culmination of 66 years of settler-colonialism

Israel claims its latest onslaught against the population of Gaza is a response to Hamas rocket-fire, targeted at "terrorists" and motivated to "restore quiet." However, an analysis of the IDF's public relations points and war doctrines as well as the historical context of the events, shows...

Netanyahu’s real goal

IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis

Israel's defence minister has confirmed that military plans to 'uproot Hamas' are about dominating Gaza's gas reserves

Liberal Western pundits – what’s the outrage over moderate Muslims?

World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs

Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

How Science Fiction can change the world from East to West

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a neocon’s dream

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy

The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth

Iraq blowback: Isis rise manufactured by insatiable oil addiction

West's co-optation of Gulf states' jihadists created the neocon's best friend: an Islamist Frankenstein

Defence officials prepare to fight the poor, activists and minorities (and commies)

The self-defeating logic of militarised social science targets anti-capitalist 'extremists' in the new 'age of uncertainty'

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements

The inevitable demise of the fossil fuel empire

Rocketing production costs, proliferating write-downs, stranded assets pave the way for renewable renaissance

US shale boom is over, energy revolution needed to avert blackouts

Global energy watchdog confirms 'the party's over' - lowers US production projections, demands urgent investment

Scientists vindicate 'Limits to Growth' – urge investment in 'circular economy'

Early warning of civilisational collapse by early to mid 21st century startlingly prescient - but opportunity for transition open

Exhaustion of cheap mineral resources is terraforming Earth – scientific report

Soaring costs of resource extraction require transition to post-industrial 'circular economy' to avoid collapse

The age of climate warfare is here. The military-industrial complex is ready. Are you?

The risk of climate conflict is real, but securitising the planet falls into the trap of those who profit from global conflict

Inclusive Capitalism Initiative is Trojan Horse to quell coming global revolt

Henry Jackson Society's pre-emptive PR offensive seeks to popularise parasitic economic growth for the few

Thailand militarisation is symptom of accelerating global system failure

Crippling fossil fuel dependency, climate volatility, rocketing debt levels are propelling protests, radicalising the state

Write-down of two-thirds of US shale oil explodes fracking myth

Industry's over-inflated reserve estimates are unravelling, and with it the 'American dream' of oil independence

Murdoch-owned media hypes lone metereologist's climate junk science

Absurd anti-science faux journalism flares up again - as usual, it's Big Oil that's set to benefit, not the public

IPCC reports 'diluted' under 'political pressure' to protect fossil fuel interests

Saudi-led coalition sought to make policy summaries as vague as possible to minimise climate action